Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the Classic Reload, the monthly feature where we complete our woeful errands with a smile. Each month, we take a look at a game from the App Store's past to see how it holds up in the here and now. It's a chance to revisit old favorites, reflect on their overall place in the App Store's library, or to take a deeper dive than our reviews typically allow for. If there's a game you'd like to see featured here, don't be shy! You can make suggestions in the comments below and I'll consider them for a future installment.
As I've mentioned before, my plan for the first several installments of this feature is to more or less go through all of TouchArcade's previous Game of the Year winners before moving on to other things. In that spirit, we're taking a look at Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP [$3.99], the 2011 TouchArcade Game of the Year, in this month's Classic Reload. Initially released on iPad on March 24th, 2011, the game eventually made its way to iPhone and PC, earning high praise from critics and players alike and proving to be a genuine hit for developers Superbrothers and Capybara Games. With music being such a large part of the game, it's no surprise that it was also a real booster for the game's composer, Jim Guthrie, too. More than that, the game served as an example for countless mobile games to follow. For example, the developers of Monument Valley [$3.99] have cited Sword & Sworcery as one of their inspirations.
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